Faith inspires me. I am a Christian, and I love my God, especially because I believe He’s an author too. Bad things happened to Snape, Katniss, and Ender, and yet we don’t hate the authors for it. Instead, we love the authors for fantastical worlds, intricate plots, and deeply flawed characters. I feel the same way about my religion. However, I do believe creation is an act of love. You have to love your characters to understand them, and you have to understand them to fit them into the world you meticulously formed. We don’t owe it to our characters to be nice to them, but we do owe them a wonderfully complex universe of many moving parts.